[modeleng] Re: Engineerium


 Some of you may already have heard that the Brighton Engineerium has closed
 and all the exhibits are being sold.
 A great pity as it was / is a superb collection in a fantastic Victorian
 building.  Alan

Alan,

I am still perusing the Brighton museum sale lots and thoroughly impressed 
by the quality of the models and full size engines on display.  Many, many 
thanks for the link.

This is pobably another example of the younger generation not giving a hoot 
about "old timey" things that made their lives so easy. Essentially the same 
thing has apparently happened at the Henry Ford Museum wherein a lot of 
really nice antique machines and machinery has been sold off to make room 
for things like the "Rosa Parks Bus" and the Oscar Mayer "Weinermobile".

I attended the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry way back in 1949 and 
was awed by the operating exhibits demonstrating physics and manufacturing. 
About 15 years ago I went again and all of the things I had found so 
interesting were gone, largely replaced by glaring graphics for the hip-hop 
crowd.  The coal mine and Faucault pendulum were still there and the Nazi 
submarine had been added, but overall, I was greatly disappointed.  Again, 
who but us old fogies care about the past!

Jesse the ancient Redneck in Tennessee

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